Spring
2011
College of the Redwoods Program Review Committee Executive Summary Adopted November 6, 2009 Mission Statement The College of the Redwoods’ Program Review Committee leads and facilitates authentic assessment as it relates to student success and planning at the institution for all subject and service areas. The committee reviews Annual and Comprehensive Program Reviews that provide the strong foundation upon which College of the Redwoods develops, identifies, states and documents quality improvement plans and goals including providing the direction of prioritization of funding, and support needs as organized under the strategic planning objectives. Objective: To provide an evaluative Executive Summary of this program’s review for authors, the Integrated Planning Committees, and the District. Program Review Subject/Service Area: __Residential Life___________________ Program Review Authors: __Robert Ekholdt______________________________________________________ Summary and Recommendations: Additional Comments: 1. Program strengths:
Collecting increasing and varied data regarding programs
Establishing goals and following through with limited resources
2. Program challenges/obstacles:
Health and safety
Residence halls need a lot of facility work
Safety issues need to be addressed
3. Commendations
Establishing goals and following through with limited resources
Decrease in residential student violations
& Recommendations:
Full-time custodian needed to oversee
More operating staff
Health and safety issues need to be addressed
4. Program Budget/Funding Sources:
Self sustaining budget often used for other purposes; campus life
director salary cutting into this budget
Recommend: Separate campus life and residential life
budgets
Health and safety budget
5. Program Goals/Plans:
New goals meet with strategic plan and are measureable
Residence Hall facilities are underutilized
Successful improvement of advising for residents
Effort to create Learning communities to address lack of overall
assessment
6. Program Outcomes Assessment (PLOs/SLOs):
Collecting increasing and varied data, analyzing, acting on it
Providing a required class for all residence students
Worked with dining services to provide better access to
more nutritional/healthy meals; changes to meal
programs to students for evenings and weekends
7. Student Success/Achievement/Basic Skills
Providing a required class for all residence students
obstacles/challenges:
Unclear number of students res halls hold-this could be
60 -70% retention; can benchmark data be included?
helpful
60% resident hall student’s gpa falls below 2.0
PRC Recommendation: 1) All programs would benefit from a formalized, institution-led follow-up system/tracking
of our graduates. 2) Clarification/development of process from grant funded programs/positions to district funding.
3) District-wide plan for technology and equipment maintenance and replacement.
Process: Completed Executive Summary forms will be sent to program review authors. PRC will forward Executive Summaries to the appropriate integrated planning committees.